@article{ref1,
title="The end of the 'Bad seed' Era? Epigenetics' contribution to violence prevention initiatives in public health",
journal="New bioethics, The",
year="2021",
author="Meurer, Anna",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Despite numerous initiatives and significant resource investment, violence remains a pervasive threat to public health. The burgeoning field of epigenetics may offer an exciting new possibility for violence prevention efforts by illuminating the mechanisms of gene-environment interactions. In particular, it may improve our ability to design more effective primary interventions, facilitate improved intervention tailoring, and better position communities to be active agents in their well-being. However, without attention to the distinction between awareness, self-efficacy, and agency, it risks encouraging a false sense of individual accountability for violence, a perception that may perpetuate or increase existing inequities. Thus, embracing epigenetic insights in public health raises new opportunities but also new concerns. Ultimately, I argue public health should embrace epigenetics' potential, but only with an equal commitment to state responsibility and systemic justice.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2050-2877",
doi="10.1080/20502877.2021.1877450",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20502877.2021.1877450"
}